A few notes - Western culture didn’t develop very quickly - the geography had humans for tens of thousands of years before culture developed quickly. Other par

A few notes - Western culture didn’t develop very quickly - the geography had humans for tens of thousands of years before culture developed quickly. Other parts of the world actually developed relatively advanced civilizations long before Europe. I think once it began to develop it developed quickly partially due to the geography, but it was also through trade with the Middle East and Asia, which were the sources of a lot of the technology bootstrap priming Europe to develop rapidly. It’s indisputable that once the ball really began rolling Europe brought us to the modern age rapidly. But I’m dubious of the geography argument personally since it was so late in developing relative to other societies, including those in the americas. China actually was an advanced maritime society, with expeditions across most of the world including to the Americas. In fact in the 1400s China was the world’s most powerful navy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_China https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_China